# 1 Chronicles 13

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-chronicles/13

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, with every leader.
2. David said to Israel's entire assembly, "If it seems right to you and comes from Yahweh our God, let us send abroad to our kinsmen who remain in all the lands of Israel, together with the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands, that they may gather to us."
3. Let us bring back the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.
4. The whole congregation said they would do so, because the matter was good in the sight of all the people.
5. David gathered all Israel from Shihor of Egypt to the entrance of Hamath to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
6. David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh who dwells on the cherubim, called by name.
7. They carried the ark of God on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
8. David and all Israel played before God with all their strength, with songs, harps, psalteries, timbrels, cymbals, and trumpets.
9. When they reached Chidon's threshing floor, Uzza stretched out his hand to steady the ark because the oxen stumbled.
10. Yahweh's anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him because he reached out his hand to the ark; there he died before God.
11. David grew angry because Yahweh had broken a breach against Uzza, and he called that place Perez-Uzza to this day.
12. David feared God that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God to me?"
13. David did not take the ark to himself in the city of David, but turned it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
14. The ark of God stayed with Obed-Edom's household in his house for three months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom's household and everything he had.

## Nearby chapters

[1 Chronicles 12](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-chronicles/12.md)
[1 Chronicles 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-chronicles/14.md)

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